OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 19 shown for “Status cloth” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:21 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Status cloth

Status cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lineage Portrait of an Abbot

Lineage Portrait of an Abbot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Status cloth

Status cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Koto (箏), by Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan

Koto (箏)

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hat

Hat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Nino Jesus, by Unidentified

Nino Jesus

Unidentified · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary mask, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Funerary mask

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bavo

Saint Bavo

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing figure, by Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

Standing figure

Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE

Public domainThe Met
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Swaddling cloth

Swaddling cloth

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Floor cloth fragment

Floor cloth fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapa cloth

Tapa cloth

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 251 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 273740 matched · 40 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 06:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.